ÅJapomaniaÄ ' the enthusiasm of the Western world in the late nineteenth century and the world of images from the Far East. The public's yearning for exotic culture triggers a downright collecting mania for Japanese art. Especially artists begin to collect and integrate the exotic vocabulary of forms into their own pictorial language. Monet, Manet, van Gogh, and Degas are the first, followed by younger artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Marc, Kandinsky, and Bonnard. Published in conjunction with the Kunstforum Wien exhibition it provides a unique overview of the fascination of the exotic.